{"id":1311,"date":"2009-08-14T19:39:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T02:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2024-10-28T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T23:48:00","slug":"homes-designed-for-baby-boomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/homes-designed-for-baby-boomers\/","title":{"rendered":"Homes Designed for Baby Boomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While many baby boomers are looking to down-size and prepare for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/rbssConsumerGoodsAndRetailNews\/idUSN1252851120090812\">retirement<\/a>, most are just interested in finding the right-sized home so they can enjoy easy and economical living without sacrificing their needs and changing their lifestyle. For some, that may mean a small house plan with a large outdoor living space and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.builderonline.com\/design\/10-top-selling-house-plans-under-2000-square-feet.aspx\">open floor plan<\/a> so they can still entertain and have room for the grandkids. For most, it means a home with lots of flexible spaces to accommodate overnight guests, a home office, entertainment\/media room, and craft and hobby room.<\/p>\n<p>One thing most home plans have in common for boomers are they are one-story or ranch house plans, have a large master suite, flexible living spaces and bonus rooms. You can enjoy browsing through our collection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/small-house-plans.asp\">small house plans<\/a>, open floor plans, empty nester, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/one-story-house-plans.asp\">one-story house plans<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/bonus-room-house-plans\/\">bonus room<\/a> house plans.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy reading our latest issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/homeideas\/issue71\/\">Home Ideas<\/a> featuring three articles about aging in place &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/articles\/homes-designed-for-all-ages.asp\">Homes Designed for All Ages<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/articles\/designed-with-baby-boomers.asp\">Designed With Baby Boomers In Mind<\/a>and<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/greenhouseplans\/healthier-home.asp\">Top Tips for a Healthier Home<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/plan\/the-gunter-ridge-1603\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/images\/plans\/IQH\/1200Bfront.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many baby boomers are looking to down-size and prepare for retirement, most are just interested in finding the right-sized home so they can enjoy easy and economical living without sacrificing their needs and changing their lifestyle. For some, that may mean a small house plan with a large outdoor living space and open floor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,2],"tags":[207,173,95,88,9],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floor-plans","category-houseplans","tag-baby-boomers","tag-bonus-room","tag-one-story-house-plans","tag-open-floor-plan","tag-small-house-plans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15045,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/15045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}